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An FPT Algorithm for the Embeddability of Graphs into Two-Dimensional Simplicial Complexes

Authors Éric Colin de Verdière, Thomas Magnard

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  • Theory of computation → Computational geometry
  • Mathematics of computing → Graph algorithms
  • Mathematics of computing → Graphs and surfaces
  • Mathematics of computing → Topology
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  • computational topology
  • embedding
  • simplicial complex
  • graph
  • surface
  • fixed-parameter tractability

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Abstract

We consider the embeddability problem of a graph G into a two-dimensional simplicial complex C: Given G and C, decide whether G admits a topological embedding into C. The problem is NP-hard, even in the restricted case where C is homeomorphic to a surface.
It is known that the problem admits an algorithm with running time f(c)n^{O(c)}, where n is the size of the graph G and c is the size of the two-dimensional complex C. In other words, that algorithm is polynomial when C is fixed, but the degree of the polynomial depends on C. We prove that the problem is fixed-parameter tractable in the size of the two-dimensional complex, by providing a deterministic f(c)n³-time algorithm. We also provide a randomized algorithm with expected running time 2^{c^{O(1)}}n^{O(1)}.
Our approach is to reduce to the case where G has bounded branchwidth via an irrelevant vertex method, and to apply dynamic programming. We do not rely on any component of the existing linear-time algorithms for embedding graphs on a fixed surface; the only elaborated tool that we use is an algorithm to compute grid minors.

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Éric Colin de Verdière and Thomas Magnard. An FPT Algorithm for the Embeddability of Graphs into Two-Dimensional Simplicial Complexes. In 29th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 204, pp. 32:1-32:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.32

Author Details

Éric Colin de Verdière
  • LIGM, CNRS, Univ Gustave Eiffel, F-77454 Marne-la-Vallée, France
Thomas Magnard
  • LIGM, CNRS, Univ Gustave Eiffel, F-77454 Marne-la-Vallée, France

Funding

Partially supported by the ANR projects Min-Max (ANR-19-CE40-0014) and SoS (ANR-17-CE40-0033).

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Arnaud de Mesmay for useful discussions.

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